Archive for the ‘Conte Schwimmwagen’ tag

* Our friend Rich Campbell from the Minutia blog sent along a link this week to photos he took of the Vintage Sports Car Club’s recent Lakeland Trials. If you’re not familiar with British trialling, check out the photos for all the mud-splattered fun. “It’s pretty amazing what the English do with their vintage cars,” Rich wrote. “Can you imagine someone in the US driving a Bentley through the mud and up a 25 degree incline?”

* There’s a lotta talk about Russia in the news in recent months, but we never really gave much thought to how active and organized their classic car scene was until a member of the Retromotor club recently posted to the Hemmings Forum a couple links to the club’s activities. Looks like they’re having just as much fun with their old cars as the members of the VSCC are.

* How does Hugo90 do it? He finds all the coolest odd vehicles to photograph, and he apparently finds awesome brochures that he shares on Flickr as well, including this scan of the Conte Schwimmwagen. Some brief googling shows that it dates from 1979 (no! really?), but I’ve yet to discover more about it.

* On the one hand, it kinda pains us to see a vintage Econoline van cut up – we’d much rather see it back on the road. But on the other hand, turning the back end of the van into a toolbox, as these photos from the Garage Journal show, is a cool way to recycle it and prevent it from becoming Chinese rebar. Now I’m eyeballing the GMC to see if I can do something similar.

* Yes, Barry, I know art cars – and this art car in particular – make you want to avert your eyes, but at the same time, how can you fault somebody for turning their car into an homage to a parent, as Margaret Warren did with her 1965 Porsche 356C? Art Car Central has the story, along with more photos.